From sylvain.baillet at mcgill.ca Fri Aug 2 19:26:30 2013 From: sylvain.baillet at mcgill.ca (Sylvain Baillet, Dr) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 23:26:30 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] BIC update Message-ID: <530B742E110D2443BB82CB2299F0493953B911A4@EXMBX2010-7.campus.MCGILL.CA> Dear BIC Members and Collaborators: As my second day as Interim BIC Director is coming to an end, I thought this would be a good time for a first update about what's coming ahead of us in the course of the next academic year. First and foremost, I want to emphasize the considerable contribution Bruce Pike has brought to the development of our Centre over the past 15 years. We are all very much obliged to Bruce's vision and driving force to bring the BIC in a leading position at the local, national and international levels. I hope we will have the opportunity to bid proper farewell to Bruce before he takes on his new role at U of Calgary by early September. Let's all wish him good luck and the best success for his new scientific endeavors! If you look around the neuroimaging community, the BIC is one of the very few (maybe the only one with the Martinos Centre at MGH/Harvard) to feature such a large palette of instrumentation (expansive human and small-animal MRI & PET, Radiochemistry, MEG) and expertise (computational neuroanatomy, medical image analysis, image reconstruction, translational approaches, multimodal integration, etc.). What is actually totally unique about our Centre is its institutional and geographical integration with the rest of the MNI's neuroscience and clinical units. This goldmine of competences and resources has to be valued in how we consider conducting our neuroimaging research and providing services to the scientific community. This prominent position of the BIC is also something we need to defend and strengthen everyday: local and international competition is growing stronger, techniques and methods evolve rapidly and tremendously in our field. Another prominent factor, especially today, is the cost of neuroimaging research: access fees and the necessary instrumentation upgrades to remain at the cutting-edge are issues quite akin to other fields of science requiring large instruments (nuclear physics, astrophysics, large-scale computation, etc). Fortunately, imaging and neuroscience are disciplines that have been put forward in our University's 2013-17 Strategic Research Plan. With all that in mind, I intend to contribute to the best of my abilities, and with everyone of you, to the fortification and expansion of our position as a leading neuroimaging research centre. I'd like to keep this first note as short as possible - we'll have more opportunities to communicate on these hot topics over the next few months - so I thought I might close with a short list of things and news: - Grace Flynn is joining the BIC as Administrative Assistant to the Director. We will all benefit from Grace' tremendous experience: she has served as Executive Admin Assistant to the two previous MNI Directors: Drs Murphy and Colman. We're very fortunate to have Grace onboard and please join me in welcoming her at the BIC! - MRI Research Committee: Dr Andrea Bernasconi has gracefully accepted to head our MRI Research Committee. Andrea has been a long-time member of the RC and I am grateful he has accepted to take on this key responsibility to facilitate the smooth continuation of our MR operations. - MRI Physicist: recruitment is underway to hire a new BIC Faculty Member with expertise in MR data acquisition, in replacement of Bruce. Several strong candidates have already applied; a Recruitment Committee will be formed over the next couple of weeks. - Save the date 1: A site review of our Centre will take place Sept 10-11. Reviewers are Dr Rich Carson (Head of the Yale PET Center) and Dr Bruce Rosen (Head of the A. Martinos Center for Bioimaging Research, MGH/Harvard). Program details to be announced. - Save the date 2: Giant potluck BICBQ lunch, Friday Sept 13: to rinse our sorrow from that week's site review down into oblivion (whatever it means and might take). Program details to be announced. - Save the date 3: MNI External Review (Nov 18-19). This will be an opportunity for us all to present our vision about the future of Neuroimaging research at the Neuro and McGill. FYI, reviewers will be Dr. Richard Frackowiack (University of Lausanne), Dr. Steven Hyman, Chair (Harvard University), Dr. Virginia Lee (University of Pennsylvania), Dr. Timothy A. Pedley (Columbia University) and Dr. Joshua Sanes (Harvard University). In preparation to this important event, we'll organize preparatory plenary sessions so that all members of the BIC can contribute suggestions, ideas and critiques. - 'BIC it' 1: I'll send out an a link to an online survey over the next couple of weeks, to collect your suggestions about how you all perceive your life at the BIC, what it represents or shall represent to be a member of a Centre and to collect critiques and suggestions to revitalize our sense of collegiality. - 'BIC it' 2: Elections will be held early this fall to elect members of the BIC Steering Committee: a new operational entity that will be key in our Centre's everyday operations and an opportunity for everyone to be heard from everyone. SC members will represent all categories of the BIC personnel: Students, Post-docs, Research Assistants, Staff Admins and Techs and Managers, Faculty + our external users. The SC shall meet on a monthly (tentatively) basis and minutes will be forwarded to all BIC members. That's about it for now. Sorry for such a long note, on a late Friday afternoon: I guess this is a reflection of my level of enthusiasm to work with you all and to serve as Interim Director. Feel free to contact me directly by email of phone (x5469) if you wish to meet in person or share suggestions. We're all in for an exciting new ride! Cheers - Sylvain. ----------------------- Sylvain Baillet, PhD MNI Killam and FRSQ Senior Scholar Interim Director, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre Director, MEG Research Associate Professor, Neurology & Neurosurgery Associate Member, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering neuroSPEED lab MEG @ McGill Brainstorm project McConnell Brain Imaging Centre Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sylvain.baillet at mcgill.ca Tue Aug 6 14:54:57 2013 From: sylvain.baillet at mcgill.ca (Sylvain Baillet, Dr) Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 18:54:57 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] McConnell Centre - Special Lectures: Aug 12 and 13 Message-ID: <530B742E110D2443BB82CB2299F0493953B99F83@EXMBX2010-7.campus.MCGILL.CA> Dear All: This is an announcement for a couple of Special Lectures hosted by the MNI's McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (BIC): Both lectures are at 2pm, deGranpr? Communication Centre, MNI, 3801 University St. Monday, August 12: "Second-person Approaches in Social Neuroscience: Neuroimaging Methods for the Study of Social Interaction." Guillaume Dumas, PhD Human Brain & Behavior Laboratory Center for Complex Systems & Brain Sciences Florida Atlantic University, Boca-Raton (USA) Dr Dumas will also host a discussion on the open-science HackYourPhD project at 6pm that dat, HEC Montreal: http://www.eventbrite.ca/event/7770398471 Abstract - How are neural, behavioral and social scales coordinated in real time so as to make possible the emergence of social cognition? Answering this question requires to study the dynamics of coordination in real human interactions. However, even at the simplest dyadic scale, methodological and theoretical challenges remain. Several theories have been proposed to infer the link between neurobiology and social psychology, but the dynamical components of human interaction are still poorly explored because of the difficulty to record simultaneously the brain activity from several subjects. This is the goal of hyperscanning methodology. I will first present how the combination of situated social paradigms with hyperscanning allowed to demonstrate that states of interactional synchrony at the behavioral level correlate with the emergence of inter-individual synchronization at the brain level (Dumas et al. PLoS ONE 2010). It thus demonstrated for the first time anatomo-functional similarities between two human brains at the millisecond level, without any common external driving signal. The related inter-brain synchronization in different frequency bands appeared to reflect different aspects of social interaction, such as interactional synchrony, anticipation of other's actions and co-regulation of turn-taking. Then, I will present how such phenomena can be simulated with biologically inspired numerical simulations (e.g. using direct measures of brain connectivity with DTI) and how the human connectome facilitates inter-individual synchronizations and thus may partly account for our propensity to generate dynamical couplings with others (Dumas et al. PLoS ONE 2012). Finally, I will present another tool called Virtual Partner Interaction (VPI) (Kelso, et al. PLoS ONE 2009). This VPI integrates equations of human motion at the neurobehavioral level. A human and a "virtual partner" are then reciprocally coupled in real-time, which allow controlling the dynamical parameters of the interaction while maintaining the continuous flow of interaction. This technique scaled up to the level of human behavior the idea of dynamic clamps used to study the dynamics of interactions between neurons. By combining studies on both human-human and human-machine interactions thus present new approaches for investigating the neurobiological mechanisms of interpersonal coordination, and test theoretical/computational models concerning the dynamics at the neural, behavioral and social scales. Short bio: Guillaume Dumas has trained at ?cole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures of Paris (France), and graduated in Theoretical Physics at the University of Paris: Orsay. He then obtained a Master degree in Cognitive Science at the ?cole Normale Sup?rieure (Paris), and completed his Ph.D. training in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Paris: Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, in 2011. In 2012, he moved as postdoc in the Human Brain & Behavior Laboratory of the Center for Complex Systems & Brain Sciences, at Florida Atlantic University. His interdisciplinary research is focused on integrative accounts of neural, behavioral and social coordination dynamics. Methods used range from both intra- and inter-individual neuroimaging techniques to neurocomputational simulations. He is also a scientific writer and journalist and is engaged with multiple projects at the cross-road of Art and Science. Recently, he co-created the community HackYourPhD which gather students, researchers and citizens around the topic of open science. Tuesday Aug 13: "Neuronal Processing Associated with Auditory Perceptual Awareness" Andrew R. Dykstra, PhD Auditory Cognition Lab Neurologie und Poliklinik Universit?tsklinikum Heidelberg (Germany) Abstract - How a sensory stimulus transcends subconscious processing and enters awareness is a fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience. To date, the vast majority of knowledge concerning this topic stems from studies conducted in the visual modality. However, a truly general theory of conscious access should also apply to other types of sensory stimuli, making the auditory system an ideal test bed with which to examine theories of conscious access stemming from vision. In this talk, I will present results from several multimodal neuroimaging (M/EEG, sMRI, iEEG) experiments designed to address the following questions. (i) Can the neural correlates of auditory perceptual awareness be dissociated from those of auditory selective attention? And (ii): What are neural correlates of auditory perceptual awareness in brain areas outside the classically-defined auditory cortex and in neuronal frequency regions (e.g. gamma, high gamma) less observable with non-invasive methods? Short bio - Andrew Dykstra was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area before completing an undergraduate degree in Electrical and Audio Engineering at the University of Miami. During his first year of course work in his graduate program in the Speech and Hearing Program at Harvard/MIT, he learned that one could probe the brain directly (in contrast to the engineer's black-box approach) via the various neuroimaging methodologies as well as functional neuroanatomical lesion studies. Consequently, Andrew did his masters thesis with Jennifer Melcher, examining the effects of cardiac-triggered image acquisition on state-of-the-art auditory fMRI. For his PhD, which was supervised by Syd Cash and Eric Halgren, Andrew made ECoG recordings from neurosurgical patients while they participated in two now-classical auditory psychoacoustic paradigms (streaming and informational masking). After defending his thesis in 2011, Andrew moved to his current location in Heidelberg, Germany to work with Alexander Gutschalk in order to further his methodological training (now in M/EEG and fMRI) as well as continue his study of the neural basis of conscious auditory perception. ----------------------- Sylvain Baillet, PhD MNI Killam and FRSQ Senior Scholar Interim Director, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre Director, MEG Research Associate Professor, Neurology & Neurosurgery Associate Member, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering neuroSPEED lab MEG @ McGill Brainstorm project McConnell Brain Imaging Centre Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sylvain.baillet at mcgill.ca Mon Aug 12 08:51:20 2013 From: sylvain.baillet at mcgill.ca (Sylvain Baillet, Dr) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:51:20 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] Reminder: McConnell Centre - Special Lectures: Aug 12 and 13 Message-ID: <530B742E110D2443BB82CB2299F0493953BA343C@EXMBX2010-7.campus.MCGILL.CA> It's today and tomorrow. Have a great week, everyone. Sylvain. -------- Dear All: This is an announcement for a couple of Special Lectures hosted by the MNI's McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (BIC): Both lectures are at 2pm, deGranpr? Communication Centre, MNI, 3801 University St. Monday, August 12: "Second-person Approaches in Social Neuroscience: Neuroimaging Methods for the Study of Social Interaction." Guillaume Dumas, PhD Human Brain & Behavior Laboratory Center for Complex Systems & Brain Sciences Florida Atlantic University, Boca-Raton (USA) Dr Dumas will also host a discussion on the open-science HackYourPhD project at 6pm that dat, HEC Montreal: http://www.eventbrite.ca/event/7770398471 Abstract - How are neural, behavioral and social scales coordinated in real time so as to make possible the emergence of social cognition? Answering this question requires to study the dynamics of coordination in real human interactions. However, even at the simplest dyadic scale, methodological and theoretical challenges remain. Several theories have been proposed to infer the link between neurobiology and social psychology, but the dynamical components of human interaction are still poorly explored because of the difficulty to record simultaneously the brain activity from several subjects. This is the goal of hyperscanning methodology. I will first present how the combination of situated social paradigms with hyperscanning allowed to demonstrate that states of interactional synchrony at the behavioral level correlate with the emergence of inter-individual synchronization at the brain level (Dumas et al. PLoS ONE 2010). It thus demonstrated for the first time anatomo-functional similarities between two human brains at the millisecond level, without any common external driving signal. The related inter-brain synchronization in different frequency bands appeared to reflect different aspects of social interaction, such as interactional synchrony, anticipation of other's actions and co-regulation of turn-taking. Then, I will present how such phenomena can be simulated with biologically inspired numerical simulations (e.g. using direct measures of brain connectivity with DTI) and how the human connectome facilitates inter-individual synchronizations and thus may partly account for our propensity to generate dynamical couplings with others (Dumas et al. PLoS ONE 2012). Finally, I will present another tool called Virtual Partner Interaction (VPI) (Kelso, et al. PLoS ONE 2009). This VPI integrates equations of human motion at the neurobehavioral level. A human and a "virtual partner" are then reciprocally coupled in real-time, which allow controlling the dynamical parameters of the interaction while maintaining the continuous flow of interaction. This technique scaled up to the level of human behavior the idea of dynamic clamps used to study the dynamics of interactions between neurons. By combining studies on both human-human and human-machine interactions thus present new approaches for investigating the neurobiological mechanisms of interpersonal coordination, and test theoretical/computational models concerning the dynamics at the neural, behavioral and social scales. Short bio: Guillaume Dumas has trained at ?cole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures of Paris (France), and graduated in Theoretical Physics at the University of Paris: Orsay. He then obtained a Master degree in Cognitive Science at the ?cole Normale Sup?rieure (Paris), and completed his Ph.D. training in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Paris: Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, in 2011. In 2012, he moved as postdoc in the Human Brain & Behavior Laboratory of the Center for Complex Systems & Brain Sciences, at Florida Atlantic University. His interdisciplinary research is focused on integrative accounts of neural, behavioral and social coordination dynamics. Methods used range from both intra- and inter-individual neuroimaging techniques to neurocomputational simulations. He is also a scientific writer and journalist and is engaged with multiple projects at the cross-road of Art and Science. Recently, he co-created the community HackYourPhD which gather students, researchers and citizens around the topic of open science. Tuesday Aug 13: "Neuronal Processing Associated with Auditory Perceptual Awareness" Andrew R. Dykstra, PhD Auditory Cognition Lab Neurologie und Poliklinik Universit?tsklinikum Heidelberg (Germany) Abstract - How a sensory stimulus transcends subconscious processing and enters awareness is a fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience. To date, the vast majority of knowledge concerning this topic stems from studies conducted in the visual modality. However, a truly general theory of conscious access should also apply to other types of sensory stimuli, making the auditory system an ideal test bed with which to examine theories of conscious access stemming from vision. In this talk, I will present results from several multimodal neuroimaging (M/EEG, sMRI, iEEG) experiments designed to address the following questions. (i) Can the neural correlates of auditory perceptual awareness be dissociated from those of auditory selective attention? And (ii): What are neural correlates of auditory perceptual awareness in brain areas outside the classically-defined auditory cortex and in neuronal frequency regions (e.g. gamma, high gamma) less observable with non-invasive methods? Short bio - Andrew Dykstra was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area before completing an undergraduate degree in Electrical and Audio Engineering at the University of Miami. During his first year of course work in his graduate program in the Speech and Hearing Program at Harvard/MIT, he learned that one could probe the brain directly (in contrast to the engineer's black-box approach) via the various neuroimaging methodologies as well as functional neuroanatomical lesion studies. Consequently, Andrew did his masters thesis with Jennifer Melcher, examining the effects of cardiac-triggered image acquisition on state-of-the-art auditory fMRI. For his PhD, which was supervised by Syd Cash and Eric Halgren, Andrew made ECoG recordings from neurosurgical patients while they participated in two now-classical auditory psychoacoustic paradigms (streaming and informational masking). After defending his thesis in 2011, Andrew moved to his current location in Heidelberg, Germany to work with Alexander Gutschalk in order to further his methodological training (now in M/EEG and fMRI) as well as continue his study of the neural basis of conscious auditory perception. ----------------------- Sylvain Baillet, PhD MNI Killam and FRSQ Senior Scholar Interim Director, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre Director, MEG Research Associate Professor, Neurology & Neurosurgery Associate Member, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering neuroSPEED lab MEG @ McGill Brainstorm project McConnell Brain Imaging Centre Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Sridar Narayanan Petra Schweinhardt Amir Shmuel Topic Format Lecturer Date Course overview and introduction/ Introduction to the Brain Amir Thu Sept 5 Introduction to Brain Imaging Lecture Petra/Sridar Mo Sept 9 The Basics of MRI and fMRI Physics (I) Lecture Sridar Thu Sept 12 The Basics of MRI and fMRI Physics (II) Lecture Sridar Mo Sept 16 A Non-Mathematical Introduction to K-Space Lecture Robert Thu Sept 19 Structural Image Pre-processing Lecture Kunio Mo Sept 23 Stereotaxic Space, Image Registration, and Image Segmentation Lecture Hassan Rivaz Thu Sept 26 Voxel Based Morphometry, Deformation Based Morphometry (or CTA?) Lecture Hassan Rivaz Mo Sept 30 TBD Paper discussion I Thu Oct 3 Diffusion Tensor Imaging I Lecture Jennifer Campbell Mo Oct 7 Diffusion Tensor Imaging II Lecture Jennifer Campbell Thu Oct 10 Thanksgiving No class Oct 14 Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Lecture Sridar Thu Oct 17 Mid-term Mo Oct 21 EEG Lecture Grova Thu Oct 24 MEG Lecture Grova Mo Oct 28 TBD Paper discussion II Thu Oct 31 fMRI Experimental Design Lecture Petra Mo Nov 4 fMRI Experimental Design in practice Practical session Petra Thu Nov 7 FMR Image Pre-Processing and Related Issues Lecture Rick Hoge Mo Nov 11 TBD Paper discussion III Thu Nov 14 Neural basis of fMRI (I) Lecture Amir Mo Nov 18 Neural basis of fMRI (II) Lecture Amir Thu Nov 21 fMRI Analysis of evoked responses Lecture Jorge Armony Mo Nov 25 TBD Paper discussion VI Thu Nov 28 Resting state fMRI and related analysis Lecture Pierre Bellec Mon Dec 2 Final exam Should be between Dec 5 and 18. 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Where: lobby of the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (W3B) When: Thursday Aug 29 @ 4:30pm What: Wine and cheese Dress code: MR compatible Cheers - Sylvain. ----------------------- Sylvain Baillet, PhD MNI Killam and FRSQ Senior Scholar Interim Director, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre Director, MEG Research Associate Professor, Neurology & Neurosurgery Associate Member, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From siddiqi at cim.mcgill.ca Mon Aug 26 11:54:21 2013 From: siddiqi at cim.mcgill.ca (Kaleem Siddiqi) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:54:21 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Vision/Image analysis and related courses - 2013-2014 Message-ID: <878D8E8C-1395-48F8-B255-5D00D4A75944@cim.mcgill.ca> Dear All, With help from many colleagues I've compiled a partial list of courses that are being offered this year in the area of computer vision, image analysis, medical imaging and human vision. This may be a partial list, some of it may not quite be correct or up to date, and I may have missed some relevant course. However, I hope this is helpful to graduate students who are allowed to take courses in departments outside their home departments. We clearly have many interesting graduate level courses to offer and it would be great if we could actively encourage cross-registration. Best, Kaleem ECSE 529 - Martin Levine - Computer and Biological Vision - fall 2013 ECSE 683 - Frank Ferrie - Topics in Vision and Robotics - fall 2013 ECSE 688 - Jim Clark - Color Engineering - winter 2014 ECSE 626 - Tal Arbel - Statistical Methods in Computer Vision - winter 2014 COMP 558 - Kaleem Siddiqi - Fund. of Computer Vision - fall 2013 COMP 766 - Kaleem Siddiqi - Shape Analysis in Computer Vision - winter 2014 PSYC 526 - Fred Kingdom and Kathy Mullen - Advances in Visual Perception - winter 2014 NEUR 603 - Chris Pack/Amir Shmuel/Daniel Guitton - Computational Neuroscience - winter 2014? NEUR 573 - Shmuel/Schweinhardt/Naryanan - Human Brain Imaging - fall 2013 MDPH 607 - Andrew Reader/Ives Levesque - Introduction to Medical Imaging - winter 2014 BMDE 650 - Louis Collins - Advanced Medical Imaging - winter 2014 BMDE 610 - Christophe Grova - Functional Neuroimaging Fusion - winter 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Dr. Abraham Stroock, Cornell University ? Cancer Nanomedicine ? Dr. Warren C. W. Chan, University of Toronto We also hope to provide the opportunity for students and faculty to network, with the aim of starting new collaborations that advance the field of biomedical engineering. We invite anyone interested to register to attend this symposium. The registration cap is unlimited. However, a limited number of lunches will be served and allotted based on order of registration form submission. Registered attendees will receive confirmation a week before the symposium if they will receive a lunch ticket. o Date: 13 September 2013 o Time: 8 am ? 5:30 pm o Location: Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre, Montreal Neurological Institute. o Please register at: http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/bmess/symposium13/registration.html For more information about the symposium, please check the following link: http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/bmess/symposium13/ Best Regards, Lara K. 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URL: From grace.flynn at mcgill.ca Mon Aug 26 16:10:52 2013 From: grace.flynn at mcgill.ca (Grace Flynn, Ms.) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 20:10:52 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] Bruce Pike Farewell - Location Update - Thursday, August 29, 4:30 p.m. - Jeanne Timmins Foyer Message-ID: <62422BA66D0FA84596DBC5A0229CE79F4DD3E462@EXMBX2010-6.campus.MCGILL.CA> Hello everyone: Location changed for Thursday's event. Now at 4:30 p.m. in the Jeanne Timmins Foyer - see you there. Grace Flynn for Sylvain Baillet Dear All: Please join us this coming Thursday Aug 29 @ 4:30pm to bid proper farewell to Gilbert (Bruce) Pike and wish him best of luck and success in his new adventure in the far far West. Where: lobby of the Jeanne Timmins When: Thursday Aug 29 @ 4:30pm What: Wine and cheese Cheers - Sylvain. ----------------------- Sylvain Baillet, PhD MNI Killam and FRSQ Senior Scholar Interim Director, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre Director, MEG Research Associate Professor, Neurology & Neurosurgery Associate Member, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kdudek at cim.mcgill.ca Tue Aug 27 09:51:19 2013 From: kdudek at cim.mcgill.ca (Krys Dudek) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 09:51:19 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Upcoming CREATE-MIA Events: September 13, 2013 Message-ID: <1C21FD7B-7836-4E5A-9688-798071D8F7B5@cim.mcgill.ca> Hi all, The first CREATE-MIA events of the fall term will take place on Friday, September 13 in MC103. 10:00am - 1:00pm IP Workshop (by registration ONLY: http://aggie.cim.mcgill.ca.:8080/create-mia/forms/create-mia-ip-whats-in-it-for-me) This will be led by Mr. Hugh Mansfield, a patent lawyer and senior partner at Goudreau Gage Dubuc in Montreal and member of both the Quebec Bar and the Quebec Order of Engineers. The workshop will consist of two parts. The first, a presentation entitled "IP: What's in it for me?" will aim to give participants a better understanding of what IP and how to make the most of their inventions and creations by protecting the IP built into them. The second part will be a case study in which various issues inherent in software ownership will be explored. I will be forwarding you some material that you will be asked to prepare before the workshop as the workshop draws nearer. The workshop is being offered through the IP Bank of Speakers, a collaborative effort of the Canadian Property Office (CIPO) and the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC). 2:30pm - 3:30pm Seminar: "Building Atlases of Heart Wall Fibers" by Prof. Kaleem Siddiqi (School of Computer Science and CIM, McGill) Abstract: Studies of cardiac fiber variability within a species tend to focus on first-order measures such as local fiber orientation. Recent work has shown that myofibers bundle locally into a particular type of minimal surface, the generalized helicoid model (GHM), which is described by three biologically meaningful curvature parameters. In order to allow comparisons between species, a typical strategy is to divide the parameters of the generalized helicoid by heart wall diameter. This normalization does not compensate for variability in myocardial shape between subjects and makes the interpretation of results difficult. We propose to use several myocardial atlases, obtained using diffeomorphic groupwise Log-demons, to register all hearts to a common reference shape to perform the normalization. In this common space, the GHM is estimated for all hearts and compared using an improved fitting method. Our results demonstrate improved consistency between GHM curvatures within a species and support a direct relation between myocardial shape and fiber curvature in the heart. 3:30pm- 4:30pm Seminar: "Imaging and Operative Techniques for Glioma Surgery" by Dr. Kevin Petrecca (Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill) Abstract: Malignant gliomas are the most common adult primary brain cancers and are amongst the most devastating of human malignancies. These cancers are characterized by high proliferation and invasion into normal brain. The goal of surgery is to remove the entirety of the tumor as strong emerging evidence suggests that completeness of resection improves cancer control and lengthens survival. Studies examining the location of malignant glioma recurrence following surgery and adjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy have found that most cancers recur within a 1 cm border along the surgical resection cavity, even in cases in which no residual gadolinium-enhancing tumor was evident on immediate post-operative MRI. This suggests that gadolinium-enhanced MRI does not sufficiently reveal the entire tumor resulting in residual tumor post-operatively. Other common MRI sequences, including FLAIR and T2, do not adequately distinguish non-gadolinium enhancing cancer cells from peritumoral edema. The inability to accurately visualize the whole tumor, including invasive cells, on imaging decreases the likelihood of complete resection. Since malignant gliomas are highly invasive tumors, the margin between tumor and normal brain is typically not obvious. Reluctant to cause an irreversible neurological deficit, surgeons will error on the side of caution. The downside is that malignant cancer cells will remain. Since adjuvant radiation and chemotherapies are only modestly effective, these cancer cells that remain along the border of the original tumor mass will recur. Intraoperative tools designed to help surgeons distinguish cancer cells from normal brain include ultrasound and fluorescence guided surgical resection. Comparative studies using these tools have shown higher rates of complete resection compared to standard operating techniques. In this session we will review current and emerging imaging technologies designed to better visualize the tumor on preoperative imaging. We also review developing surgical technologies to help surgeons distinguish cancer cells from normal brain intraoperatively. The development of these technologies will lead to an increased rate of complete resection and thus improved cancer control. Full details can be found on the CREATE-MIA website (http://aggie.cim.mcgill.ca.:8080/create-mia). All three sessions will take place in MC103 (McConnell Engineering Building, 3480 University Street). A map showing the location of the building can be found at http://aggie.cim.mcgill.ca.:8080/create-mia/about/contact-us IMPORTANT: The IP Workshop requires registration. This can be done online at http://aggie.cim.mcgill.ca.:8080/create-mia/forms/create-mia-ip-whats-in-it-for-me. The two afternoon seminars are open to all. Cheers, Krys _________________________________________________________ Krys (Christine) Dudek Program Administrator, NSERC CREATE Program for Medical Image Analysis Centre for Intelligent Machines 3480 University Street McConnell Engineering Building, Room 410 Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2A7 kdudek at cim.mcgill.ca 514.398.6319 www.cim.mcgill.ca/create-mia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: